On the heels of announcements by Jennifer Hollett and Chrystia Freeland, there’s now a third journalist looking to be the next member of Parliament for Toronto-Centre.

Linda McQuaig, a former Globe and Mail reporter and National Newspaper Award-winner, took to Twitter early Tuesday morning to say she was excited to jump into the NDP nomination race in the riding, and invited her followers to check out her website: www.lindamcquaig.ca

The author of 11 books on a variety public policy issues, McQuaig is perhaps best known for her work on income inequality.

Her latest, which documents the growing gap between the super-rich and the rest from 1980 to 2008, describes that gap as “epic.”

Peculiarly, that makes her the second candidate to release a book in 2012 on the world’s wealthiest.

Last fall Chrystia Freeland — who’s seeking the Liberal nomination in Toronto-Centre — put out “Plutocrats: The Rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else.”

For McQuaig to even get the chance to run against the Oxford-educated Freeland in the upcoming by-election, however, she’ll first have to get by Harvard graduate Jennifer Hollett for the NDP nomination

Hollett, previously a VJ at Much Music and reporter for both CTV and CBC, threw a well-attended party in the riding in late July to kick off her bid.